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[The following is a summary of selected parts of the article, "Internet Resources for Scientific Writing ", by Svetla Baykoucheva, the manager of the ACS Library and Information Center in Washington, DC (s_bayhouchev@acs.org). The article was published in Chemical Innovation, February 2001, pages 60-62. This summary consists primarily of direct quotes of material presented in the article, but in a rearranged format. The rearrangement would technically require numerous citations, but each citation would refer only to a different location on the same three pages of one article. Citing the same three pages numerous times did not seem productive and so citations have been omitted in this summary. The reader should be aware, however, that all the material in this summary is taken essentially verbatim from different parts of pages 60-62 of the February, 2001, publication of Chemical Innovation.] Dead links, as of 10/11/12, have been removed.

Internet Resources for Scientific Writing

by Svetla Baykoucheva. There are so many resources now, both in print and on the Internet, for how to write scientific papers that it is difficult to decide which is best. For this review, I have divided the Internet resources related to scientific writing into three main categories: Portals, direct links, and specific tools.

Direct Links

Direct links provide access to articles and manuals on writing in general and scientific writing in particular. One-click access to articles, manuals, and handbooks is sometimes much easier than going through portals, which list numerous URLs. Clicking links one by one can be tedious.

http://physics.gac.edu/~huber/misc/wricheck.htm If you prefer the checklist approach to writing scientific papers, Tom Huber of the physics department at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, can help. His list includes: what to do before starting to write, while writing and making global revisions to the paper, and while proofreading the paper.